here<\/a>); and a coworker loaned me his nVidia graphics card, since he has a spare after upgrading in order to play Star Wars Galaxies<\/i>. Ever since installing the new graphics card my cable modem keeps losing connection and resetting itself! I can’t fathom how it could be connected, but it’s still an uncanny coincidence. Is anyone else in the Comcast, Downriver area experiencing outages?
Actually, it’s more likely due to the electrical work done over this weekend, putting in new outlets and switches.
But then again, that was finished on Monday and the cable modem problem didn’t start till Tuesday night\u2026right after I switched graphics cards.
(And yes I deleted all ATI software and drivers before installing the nVidia card. And, yes, I got an nVidia driver this morning. And the problem still remains.)
P.S. I’m typing this at 9:33\u2026I can only guess when I’ll catch a break and be able to publish it.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can a video card cause me to lose my broadband connection? I needed to send my ATI All-in-Wonder in this morning to get repaired (for reasons illustrated here); and a coworker loaned me his nVidia graphics card, since … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,20,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-new-computer","category-me","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1823,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1821\/revisions\/1823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Can a video card cause me to lose my broadband connection? I needed to send my ATI All-in-Wonder in this morning to get repaired (for reasons illustrated here<\/a>); and a coworker loaned me his nVidia graphics card, since he has a spare after upgrading in order to play Star Wars Galaxies<\/i>. Ever since installing the new graphics card my cable modem keeps losing connection and resetting itself! I can’t fathom how it could be connected, but it’s still an uncanny coincidence. Is anyone else in the Comcast, Downriver area experiencing outages?